Music sources
The Sources screen lists what your household actually has. It asks your speaker at startup rather than showing a fixed list, so you do not get an empty "Music Library" if you have no music share, and anything Sonos adds later turns up without a firmware update.
| Source | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Music Library | Artists, album artists, albums, genres, composers, tracks and imported playlists from your network share |
| Music Shares | The NAS or SMB shares Sonos has indexed |
| Sonos Playlists | Your saved queues |
| Favorites | Everything saved in the Sonos app |
| Internet Radio | Radio stations and radio shows |
| Queue | What is queued right now |
| Line-In | The analogue input, on speakers that have one |
Streaming services
Anything you have saved in the Sonos app plays from the panel, whatever service it came from — Spotify playlists, YouTube Music mixes, radio stations, all of it.
You never sign into anything on the device. Your speaker already holds your accounts and does the work; the panel just asks it to play.
Searching a service's catalogue is not supported
You cannot browse the whole of Spotify from the panel. Save what you want in the Sonos app and it appears here.
Getting around
Browsing goes as deep as you need, with a back arrow and a breadcrumb showing where you are. Long lists load in pages rather than stopping at an arbitrary cut-off, so a 500-track queue is entirely reachable.